From Pirates to Sweeping the Worlds

After drifting on the sea for nearly a week, the three warships finally returned.

Xia Jieren is still a little uncomfortable with the boring life at sea.

"It seems that we need to develop the entertainment industry."

Xia Jieren touched his chin and made up his mind to enrich people's spiritual world.

Soon, the warship docked at a pier and the gangway was lowered.

Xia Jieren walked off the warship surrounded by the crowd.

"It's still more comfortable to step on the ground."

Feeling the solid ground beneath his feet, Xia Jieren couldn't help but sigh.

Although warships are very large, they will still experience some bumps when sailing on the sea, especially in bad weather.

No matter how big the ship is, it is just a tiny dot compared to the entire ocean, and bumps are inevitable.

"Master, the flying dragon is ready!"

At this time, Lieutenant General Zheng Hai came over and saluted.

"Forget it, I'll go back in the carriage!"

Xia Jieren waved his hand and rejected Lieutenant General Zheng Hai's kindness.

"I want to try Fuxing Avenue."

A moment later, a carriage carrying Xia Jieren headed towards the royal capital.

After stepping onto the smooth and wide Fuxing Avenue, the carriage ran unusually smoothly.

"It seems necessary to light up the automobile technology tree."

"Relying solely on transport bugs and horse-drawn carriages is clearly insufficient."

Xia Jieren thought to himself as he looked at the freight carriages coming and going on Fuxing Avenue.

Fortunately, the Kingdom of the Netherlands has a flat and open terrain and a developed animal husbandry industry.

Otherwise there wouldn't necessarily be so many horses available.

The next moment, the carriage entered Fuxing Avenue and began to accelerate.

Feeling the gentle breeze blowing towards him, Xia Jieren gently closed his eyes.

Use the Scout's Perspective to get a bird's-eye view of the area.

I saw.

The sea surface was rippling, and the waves hit the rocks on the shore with the breeze.

Adjacent to the coast, a winding and flat Fuxing Avenue stretches across it.

Sparse horse-drawn carriages traveled back and forth on Fuxing Avenue.

Looking inland from the seaside, there are endless mountains.

Among them, white clouds are lingering in the mountains, which is beautiful beyond words.

The mountains act as a barrier to block the water vapor coming from the sea, making the climate of the Netherlands suitable and ideal for crop growth.

Calming down, Xia Jieren carefully felt the tranquility.

Just like that, Xia Jieren slowly fell asleep.

Two hours later, Xia Jieren opened his eyes again.

What you see are fields that are arranged in an orderly manner and are very beautiful.

Not far away, countless workers gathered at the construction site like ants, laying railway tracks.

Relying on Xia Jieren's limited knowledge, many research institutes in the Hall of Truth worked together and finally thoroughly studied the technology related to steam locomotives.

I originally thought that the steam engine would be very difficult to operate, but it turned out to be surprisingly simple.

There are two main difficulties in manufacturing steam engines.

The first is the difficulty of materials.

The manufacture of steam engines requires the use of materials with high strength and good stability at high temperatures. The higher the steam pressure, the more difficult it is for the materials used to meet its requirements.

But this difficulty is not worth mentioning in front of the mother nest.

Kerrigan directly ordered the mother nest to synthesize high-strength, high-temperature resistant materials.

The second is the difficulty of the process.

The manufacture of steam engines requires multiple complex processes, such as heat treatment, welding, grinding, etc.

This is not a problem, as the researchers are not just here to do the work.

They listed all the tools they would need and then tackled them one by one.

If there are any materials missing, let the mother nest synthesize them directly.

In the end, all the problems come back to the issue of materials.

The material problem is not a problem for the mother nest.

After the steam engine became easy to manufacture, other related technologies such as train tracks were also easily mastered.

As for the fuel of the steam engine, it used a kind of biological liquid fuel produced by the Zerg - source liquid.

The source liquid has high energy density and oxygen content, can be fully burned, and will not produce harmful gases.

Theoretically, with the combination of source liquid and steam boiler, the maximum speed of a steam locomotive can reach 80km/h to 100km/h.

Looking at the bustling construction site, Xia Jieren's mouth corners unconsciously curled up.

"Alas, there are still many things waiting for me to do."

Xia Jieren muttered as he stretched comfortably.

After returning to the palace, Xia Jieren went straight to Queen Litt's office.

After knocking on the door, he pushed it open and walked in.

"Lit, I'm back."

The person has not been seen, but the voice has arrived.

Litt looked up and saw him. A bright smile immediately spread across her face. She said happily, "Welcome back!"

After seeing Litte, Xia Jieren felt even happier.

He couldn't hold back his desire to share, and said excitedly: "Lite, you don't know how hard I worked this time..."

Litte put down the work in her hands and listened patiently to Xia Jieren's story.

“It’s very dangerous!”

After hearing this, Litt said worriedly.

"Haha~, it's not that dangerous." Xia Jieren touched the back of his head and explained embarrassedly, "Someone is protecting me."

"I just want to practice through actual combat."

Seeing that Litte was still worried, Xia Jieren quickly changed the subject and said, "By the way! I'm going to the research institute later. Do you want to come with me?"

Hearing this, Litte's eyes lit up and she nodded quickly, "I'm going! I'm going!"

"The researchers there are really amazing. They have developed many convenient machines."

"Harvesters and seed drills have greatly facilitated farmers."

"..."

Listening to Litte talking about the convenient inventions of the research institute in detail, Xia Jieren felt proud and honored.

"Okay! Then let's go and take a look together." Xia Jieren waved his hand and took Litte out of the office.

"Recently, they have successfully developed a train."

"Train? Is it the sea train reported in the newspaper?" Litte asked in surprise.

"The newspaper also reported on the sea train?" Xia Jieren was also surprised.

"Yeah!" Litte nodded, and then explained: "I read a report about the sea train a long time ago."

"It seems that the Seven Water Cities in the Grand Line are building a sea train."

"The builder seems to be called Tom's Studio?"

Xia Jieren was surprised when he heard this, "I didn't expect Tom to be alive and well."

"I don't know when he was framed and killed by Spandam."

"We must save it if we have a chance."

Xia Jieren was calculating in his heart.

After a while, he smiled again and said, "Since you know about the Sea Train, it will be easy."

"The train that the institute is currently developing runs on land."

"Oh~" Litte responded, and then asked curiously: "Is the train really that powerful?"

Xia Jieren nodded heavily: "It's more powerful than you think."

“It can load a large amount of cargo or passengers at one time and deliver them to their destination very quickly.”

"Take the Netherlands for example. If the railway is laid and the train runs at full speed, it will only take one and a half hours to reach Eastport from the Netherlands Eastport."

“And the train can carry a maximum of 500 tons of cargo.”